Patient A who was holding two teddy bears in her arms while giving evidence said:

"A lot of people were talking they kept saying the baby needed to come out but nobody looked at me in the eye and told me what was going to happen.

"I remember them saying I was 2-3cm dilated and I was told to push. Nobody said I was not having a c-section and doing something else instead. Whilst this was going on I was in pain.

"They twice tried to cut my cervix and nobody told me they were going to do it. There was no anaesthetic. I said to them "it doesn't feel right, stop it, what's going on, I don't want to do it" but nobody responded to me in any way."